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In memory of Susan Howard, the late wife of SACA President George Howard who passed away last year

Featuring Grand Master Darryl Johansen

At the SA Chess Centre

Saturday and Sunday 9th and 10th of June (Queen's Birthday long weekend)

Start time: Saturday the 9th of June 12:00 p.m

6 Round Swiss tournament, with 3 rounds on both days

Time control: 60 min + 10 seconds for each move

For full information of this special tournament, please visit our website www.sachess.org.au

Entries to the tournament can be made by e-mail to tournaments@sachess.org.au or sachessassn@gmail.com

Susan's tournament is now only 1 week away!
So far there has been a couple of people, who have entered early, but the rest, as usual, are going to make it as hard as possible by entering last minute
Please to make it easier for us, (too late for Bill AS) enter your details via the e-mail above. Enquires are also welcome.

In memory of Susan Howard, the late wife of SACA President George Howard who passed away last year

Featuring Grand Master Darryl Johansen and International Masters James Morris and Trevor Tao

At the SA Chess Centre

Saturday and Sunday 9th and 10th of June (Queen's Birthday long weekend)

Start time: Saturday the 9th of June 12:00 p.m

6 Round Swiss tournament, with 3 rounds on both days

Time control: 60 min + 10 seconds for each move

For full information of this special tournament, please visit our website www.sachess.org.au

Entries to the tournament can be made by e-mail to tournaments@sachess.org.au or sachessassn@gmail.com

Susan's Tournament starts in less then 2 days. The early entry ends Friday Night (Which is very generous).
So if you haven't got your entry in yet, please send us your entry via e-mail to either tournaments@sachess.org.au or sachessassn@gmail.com ASAP.

IM James Morris will be hosting a lecture about "Understanding Positional Fundamentals" in about 1.5 hours time (Or 7:00 p.m start time) at the Chess Centre.
$10 normal or $7 concession.
There is no need to contact anyone, simply come in, if you got the time on your hands
Please note, the parking situation will be sticky, due to the Port Adelaide match at the same time.
Parking for Susan's tournament however should be less of a problem.

Apologies for the lateness, I wasn't able to come today and our very hard working Tournament Secretary and organiser was only able to just recently e-mail me the results for to put up on CC.
Hopefully it should be up on the website soon.
Aaron should give a better summary, but based of the standings, congrats to our visiting titled players GM Johansen, IM Morris and Alan Goldsmith on sharing equal first. It's must be a South Australian thing to have equal first in our tournaments
Some other excellent results include from juniors including Aris Giouvantsioudis, who is criminally underrated, (as IM Morris pointed out) and Athena, who is future star chess player and also Dino Cinco (Not a junior) who had 2 big scalps and a player to watch out for at SACA tournaments.

Thanks to the SAJCL and Richard Thorne who contributed to the prizes. Thank you to our arbiting team Kostas and Aaron, Aaron especially for his hard work throughout the week
Thank you to Liz Ports for making the gift we gave to George.
Thanks to our visiting titled players GM Darryl Johansen and IM James Morris for playing the Susan Howard Memorial. We hope you had a great time, you enjoyed your trip and good luck to you for the Olympiad Plus all of our players and spectators as well, who came and played and watched throughout the week
And last but not least a big thank you to our Major sponsor and our President George Howard whose generosity made this tournament possible.

For anyone playing tonight, an evacuation siren went off for 10-15 minutes after play started, at the apartments situated next to us.
The siren was very much audible to everyone in the room, distracting for most players, but play did continue, presuming that the siren would eventually stop.
The MFS responded to the siren very quickly, but presumably were going through floor by floor to make sure the all clear was given, before being able to switch the alarm off.
We're not sure, but more then likely, someone in the apartment accidentally pressed the fire alarm.
You can't say Inter-club isn't full of surprises

I realise the difficulty of the 3 rounds on Saturday for the Open Tournament. There were however many things we had to take into account, such as this not being a long weekend, giving players who don't have a FIDE Rating a better chance to get one and not going too far for the Sunday Night. SA hasn't had FIDE Weekend Tournaments for a long time, but we're happy to have it nonetheless and of course review what we can do in future.